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Headline: Brazil crushes Japan 3-0 in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match.
Subheading: In a back-and-forth match, Brazil finally opened its scoring with a Luiz direct free-kick, before Ramires’ header and late Keivan added Brazil’s advantage.
Opening Paragraph: Brazil established a 3-0 lead over Japan Monday in a World Cup qualification match in Doha. The result was much in line with how popular betting sites made it out to be as Brazil cruised past Japan in a back-and-forth match, with Felipe Luis opening the scoring via a direct free-kick, D. Luiz’s header and an injury-time goal from Keivan.
Brazil’s head coach, Mano Menezes made five changes to the side that defeated Uruguay 2-0 in the first match of South America’s own group, and this shock must have only pleased the coach more.
In addition to Luiz, Romarinho, Thiago Silva and Maicon started, with Alessandro Pereira also forming part of the starting XI, and this in-experienced side could never have feared the worst after taking the lead so early.
Out of the blocks, the match began at a frantic pace with two chances falling to Brazil inside first 5 minutes. First Luiz’s direct free-kick, struck from the left hand of the penalty area forced Japan goalkeeper, Eiji Kawashima, into making a blockage reflex save, before a well struck effort from Felipe Melo rose higher than it had any right to.
Japan’s first chance didn’t come until the 10th minute, but when it did Keisuke Honda wasted a glorious opportunity to open the scoring. The man, decked in shorts, allowed the ball to run past him, when a lofted through ball from Yasuhito Endo gave him the chance to run onto with Santa Cruz playing a very high line.
Soon after Japan’s closest effort, Yuto Nagatomo was booked for a professional foul on his compatriot, Luis, but Mario Yepes’ loose header saw Sota Hirayama at the end of the move which was shortly fashioned into a shot which was smothered well by Julio Cesar.
Brazil had the better of the last part of the first-half, controlling spells of possession with their usual flair, but trying to find a way past the stern defensive-line belonged to Albirex.
Having failed a sitter at close range Kagawa offered more hope to the Japanese 3 minutes before the interval as he forced a real save out of Cesar and this was to become the most ‘Japanese’ moment in the match when the keeper went to ground which left the Spaniard writhing in pain.
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